CJBC716 Gender questions in Czech literature and culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Zuzana Urválková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Dr. Alexander Woell (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory. Jiné omezení: Při nadlimitním počtu přihlášených studentů vybere vyučující účastníky na základě vědomostního testu nebo pohovoru.
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- understand and explain the theory of gender-studies;
- reflect on the history of this approach and its relevance in nowadays;
- enrich the interpretions of the chosen culture phenomenons, especially literary works, with the aspects of gender;
- classify the aspects of gender in the interpretation with the context of other interpretations;
- instigate this approach to other works and cultural phenomenons.
This class is devoted to some of the most known texts of the Czech canon (from Karel Hynek Mácha’s “Máj” to Ota Pavel’s “Zlatí úhoři” and Milan Kundera’s “Falešný autostop”). We will focus on the specific problems of gender and nation in Czech literature in comparison to other Slavonic literatures, and to world literature of that time. We’ll reflect the central thesis of Robert Pynsent and Alfred Thomas, and we’ll see if they are fitting to a proper interpretation of the concrete texts. We’ll ask how the Czech situation will differ from gender positions in East and West.
Syllabus
  • Karel Hynek Mácha: Máj
  • Karel Erben: Kytice
  • Jan Neruda: Povídky malostranské
  • Julius Zeyer: Tři legendy o krucifixu a Jan Maria Plojhar
  • Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic: selected poems
  • Richard Weiner: Netečný divák a Prázdná židle
  • Bohumil Hrabal: Pabitelé
  • Ota Pavel: Zlatí úhoři
  • Milan Kundera: Falešný autostop
  • Miloš Havel a kultura Barrandovských studií
Literature
  • Steffi Widera: Richard Weiner. Identität und Polarität im Prosafrühwerk. München: Otto Sagner, 2001.
  • Robert B. Pynsent: Ďáblové, ženy a národ. Výbor z úvah o české literatuře. Praha: Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2008.
  • Roar Lishaugen: ”Za humny společenské konvence. Dílo Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic ve světle queer” in: Otázky českého kánonu, Praha: UČL, 2006, pp. 372−380.
  • Alfred Thomas: The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture. Illinois: University of Wisconsin Press 2007.
  • Alexander Wöll: Jakub Deml. Leben und Werk (1878−1961). Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau, 2006.
  • Otto M. Urban: V barvách chorobných. Idea decadence a umění v českých zemích 1880−1914. Praha: Arbor vitae, 2006.
Teaching methods
Methods of presentation, application, interpretation and discussion are used in the seminar. Students present their knowledge and skills in oral and written form.
Assessment methods
lectures, class discussion;
completion of a course:
paper
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Při nadlimitním počtu přihlášených studentů vybere vyučující účastníky na základě vědomostního testu nebo pohovoru.
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